Remember when politicians had thick enough skin that they would actually attend the Coorespondents Dinner?

Yeah, this is all way too "last day of summer camp" for my liking.

I too would be down for a CZ facebook group.

I'm @ask_steven on twitter and easily findable on facebook from there. I don't use facebook a ton, but I check my messages every so often. I'll also be posting on Disqus or Kinja somewhere, presumably. Oh, and I'm u/sgstandard on reddit, but I only post there in the rarest of rare circumstances.

Happy first birthday!

Sorry!

It is.

Yeah, I'm still curious. There's a 99% chance I walk out angry but that 1% calls to me.

:(

I read somewhere that the idea is that technology stopped developing when magic emerged, because magic > technology, but when magic faded away nobody knew how to advance technology without it, or something like that.

If Tony could call taxis for the displaced passengers, why not just call taxis for the Avengers in the first place?

Each generation gets the Stan Lee it deserves.

Blerg.

VARRO!

This is all very true. If Dany goes further down the Mad King path I could see Tyrion having major problems with it (although I can't see him joining the opposing side while Cersei still lives). But Tyrion and Dany were both right; she can't expect to win the people if she burns their cities and she can't just sit on…

I'm getting misty eyed just thinking about it. One of the most stirring moments in all of cinema if you ask me.

But she unleashed an acceptable kind of hell, at least given Tyrion's unwillingness to send the dragons to Kings Landing. Drogon took out an enemy army in open terrain, one that had just slaughtered Dany's biggest ally no less. That's a much more acceptable kind of warfare than fire and blooding the civilian…

On the one hand, that might be one too many trips to the "surprise poison weapon" well. On the other hand, "Ser Bronn the Dragonslayer" does have a nice ring to it.

I went to see Valerian (C+, basically Attack of the Clones with modern effects, but oh what effects they were), caught up on last week's Rick and Morty, watched Game of Thrones, listened to the first Art of the Score episode on Star Wars, read the first few issues of Sandman: Fables and Reflections (my favorite…

Dr. Branhattan is just about the most perfect thing I've ever heard.